What’s better than landing a fat, wild, Naknek rainbow trout on a surface fly? Landing TWO fat, wild, Nanek rainbow trout on a surface fly. Deneki pal, David Kalinowski, rounds out a double while smolt bustin’ at Rapids Camp Lodge. More on Rainbow Trout Mousing for Trout – 5 Tips Alaska Rainbow Fishing – When to…
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Eagle
Great fishing can make for a good fishing trip, but its often the other things, aside from the fishing, that make a good fishing trip great. Wildlife is one those things. Sort of like this stunning shot of an immature bald eagle captured by photographic stud, Abe Blair, while on site at Rapids Camp Lodge….
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Nice Fish, Carolyn
Today we present you with nothing more than a photo of Deneki family member, Carolyn Settlemire, and guide, Chris Gong with a stunning char caught during the last week of our season at Rapids Camp Lodge. Nice work team. What a fish! More on Dollies/Char Dolly World Dolly Varden and Arctic Char at Alaska West…
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Trout Fishing – Solving the Riddle
Last week we ran a post asking you, our readers, what you’d like to read about on our blog. We received a bunch of great comments and questions, one of which is the topic for today’s post: “When things (flies, techniques) aren’t working, how do you solve the riddle?“ There are an uncountable number of variables present…
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Reason Number One to Fish the Naknek in the Fall
Deneki’s own Mike Sanders closes out our 2016 season at Rapids Camp Lodge with a lesson on why it’s a good idea to fish the Naknek River in the fall. Big, we mean BIG wild Alaskan rainbow trout. Wow. Nice fish, Mike! More from Rapids Camp Lodge Smolt Poppin’ for Rainbows Giants of the Naknek…
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Trout Fishing Tips
We’ve written a whole bunch of posts about catching trout on our blog! Here they are, categorized nicely for your reading pleasure … Tips and Advice Boondoggin for Trout: Hold On to Your Hook Set Alaska Trout Fishing – The Mouse/Sculpin Punch Mousing for Trout – Try a Dead Drift Mousing on Foot – The…
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3 Reasons We Love Naknek Rainbows
As a full service fly-out operation, at Rapids Camp Lodge we’re able to target trout in a bunch of really cool, dynamic fisheries around Bristol Bay. However, we’re extremely fortunate to be located on the banks of the Naknek River, home to some of the baddest rainbow trout in Alaska, making for one heck of…
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Not a Steelhead
Nope, that’s just one stud of a Naknek River resident rainbow trout caught by our pal, David Kalinowski, while fishing our home waters at Rapids Camp Lodge. Nice work, David! More from Rapids Camp Lodge Smolt Poppin’ for Rainbows Dan Herrig’s Naknek Swinging Rig Giants of the Naknek
Alaska Mini Gallery – Abe Blair Edition
Every once in a while we like to run a mini-gallery of photos here on our blog – A small collection of photos, some with a theme, some not so much, but generally somehow related to fly fishing. However, it’s been a while since we’ve put together a mini gallery, so today we right that…
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When We Say “Full Service” We Mean It
At Rapids Camp Lodge It is the measure of our game: the finest fishing available in Alaska’s Bristol Bay region, combined with everything you might need to make your fishing adventure 100%. Don’t have the gear (or think it’s a hassle to cart it to Alaska)? No problem. We have the waders, the boots, the…
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